Thanks to everyone who entered our Lodge Cast Iron Cookbook giveaway! We loved hearing about all your favorite kitchen equipment (and heard a lot of familiar small kitchen-friendly answers). But there can only be one winner…

Congrats to Barbara Palermo!

Barbara’s favorite piece of kitchen equipment is her Kenwood! (And can you blame her?). Shoot us an email to claim your prize!

Flying Machines. Horseless Carriages. Time Travel. Some things were thought to be unachievable. Gourmet ketchup may now be crossed off from such lists. So enjoy the fruits of innovation and the nectars of invention. Enjoy Sir Kensington’s and enjoy quality.

Diligently Yours,

Sir Kensington

Mustard has arguably had its “artisanal” moment. There are countless types of pickles. They even make Olive Oil Mayonnaise.

Until recently, though, there was no “step up” from plain old industrialized ketchup, that beloved “vegetable” of so many American cafeterias (unless you count Heinz’s special edition green EZ-squirt, with mystical power to transform …

With mangled hand-me-down pots and pans, minimal ingredients (or money to spend on them), and crowded kitchens, sometimes it’s easy to have a college meal go awry. For me, however, a cast iron skillet meal is always a sure thing. After all, as The Lodge Cast Iron Cookbook boasts, “Cast iron skillets are bound up in American cooking. No matter which part of the country you grew up in, your mother or grandmother most likely cooked in cast iron.” The cookbook explains that the reason for this quality, un-screwup-able nature of cast iron cooking is that “cast …

Meaghan Mountford’s Sugarlicious is a whimsical book of crafty sweets, one that is bursting with ideas guaranteed to impress the lucky recipients of these goodies. Her book combines the traditional elements of a baking cookbook and the quirky ingenuity of a craft handbook—meaning that anything you create from her pages will be a total crowd pleaser!

On the very first page of the Preface, Mountford lays out the “measuring cup” system she uses to rate each project’s difficulty. Novice readers will be happy to find many one- and two-cup recipes, but even three-cup recipes will be …

Thanks to everyone who entered our Baking Basics and Beyond giveaway! We loved hearing about all the things you love to bake—in fact, it’s giving us all sorts of delicious ideas! But there can only be one winner…

Congrats to Julie!

Julie loves to bake cookies—and so do we! Email us to claim your prize.

And stay tuned for lots of other great giveaways coming up on the site!

The Unofficial Mad Men Cookbook takes a peek inside the enchanting lives of the characters portrayed on AMC’s Mad Men and the food that the Drapers (et al.) would have enjoyed in the sixties. This cookbook will give you a guide to all the food they ate, the drinks they consumed, and the places they frequented. If you are a Mad Men fan, or you are in love with this era, then this is a great cookbook to add next to your shelf of Mad Men DVD’s.

My first taste of Batten Island Gourmet Sauce was pleasantly surprising. I reached for the sauce amid various other boastful hot sauce bottles one night when we were having chili. They say don’t judge a book by its cover, but I admit I may have judged this sauce by its label. On it was an alligator stirring a cauldron over an open fire. It was the only one that didn’t use the devil or the wild west to illustrate its contents.

I dabbed a bit onto my finger first, and after a taste, realized that it’s a heck of …